'Used' in the Bible
Show Me the coin used for the tax.” So they brought Him a denarius.
At that time Jesus said to the crowds, “Have you come out with swords and clubs, as if I were a criminal, to capture Me? Every day I used to sit, teaching in the temple complex, and you didn’t arrest Me.
“Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! Take note—your reward is great in heaven, for this is the way their ancestors used to treat the prophets.
Woe to youwhen all people speak well of you,for this is the way their ancestorsused to treat the false prophets.
They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.
Jesus said, “Mary.”Turning around, she said to Him in Hebrew, “Rabbouni!”—which means “Teacher.”
Though He was delivered up according to God’s determined plan and foreknowledge, you used lawless people to nail Him to a cross and kill Him.
and they recognized that he was the one who used to sit and beg at the Beautiful Gate of the temple complex. So they were filled with awe and astonishment at what had happened to him.
After hoisting it up, they used ropes and tackle and girded the ship. Then, fearing they would run aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the drift-anchor, and in this way they were driven along.
But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were transferred to,
However, not everyone has this knowledge. In fact, some have been so used to idolatry up until now that when they eat food offered to an idol, their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
If others have this right to receive benefits from you, don’t we even more?However, we have not made use of this right; instead we endure everything so that we will not hinder the gospel of Christ.
But I have used none of these rights, and I have not written this to make it happen that way for me. For it would be better for me to die than for anyone to deprive me of my boast!
We are not like Moses, who used to put a veil over his face so that the Israelites could not stare at the end of what was fading away,
For he regularly ate with the Gentiles before certain men came from James. However, when they came, he withdrew and separated himself, because he feared those from the circumcision party.
who, existing in the form of God,did not consider equality with Godas something to be used for His own advantage.
All these regulations refer to what is destroyed by being used up; they are commands and doctrines of men.
For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives—God is our witness—
Then he measured its wall, 144 cubits according to human measurement, which the angel used.